our facebook or google plus pages. you can find us on twitte twitter @ajconsiderthis. >> welcome to aljazeera america. i'm del walters. and these are the stories we're following for you. we're learning new details about the soldier said to be behind the fort hood shootings. a journalist is gunned down in afghanistan one day before the country's elections. and artwork by george w. bush now on display. >> investigators are descending

on fort hood, texas, trying to find a motive for this week's deadly shooting. the gunman is identified as ivan lopez, a soldier with a decade of experience, and now answers focusing on his state of mind. lopez had been undergoing psychiatric treatment, but he showed no signs of violence. brandon is just out of fort hood and what is the latest? >> well, dell, the investigators say there's a strong possibility that lopez got into an argument with one or more soldiers before he started shooting, and they are saying that lopez was upset about only being granted 24-hour relief to be able to go to his mom's funeral. investigators are trying to find what motivated him to open fire. by all accounts, no one could predict the violence unleashed by ivan lopez, an experienced

soldier who spent nearly half of his life in the military. on thursday, army top brass discussed lopez's experience and military record. >> this was a soldier. he actually spent nine years in the puerto rico national guard before coming on active duty. so he's a very experienced soldier. >> he had a clean record in terms of his behavior, no outstanding bad marks for any kind of miss behaviors that we're yet aware. >> reporter: but as officials look for a motive as to what would cause this matter and husband to go on a shooting rampage that killed three people and wounded 16 others. >> we had strong evidence that he had a medical history that indicates unstable psychiatric or psychological condition. and going through all of the

records, we believe that is the fundamental causal effect. >> reporter: lopez had seen a military psychiatrist as late as last month, where he was being treated for depression and anxiety. and he was taking medication. in 2011, he served for two tours in iraq, and officials said that he told his supervisors that he suffered from a traumatic brain injury and he was being evaluated for post-traumatic stress. lopez may have had an argument with one or more soldiers in the minutes leading up to the shooting. >> we do not have that definitively at this point, but we have strong indications of that much. >> meanwhile, lopez's wife is said to be cooperating with the fbi and helping them to understand her husband's state of mind. but even with the complex, neighbors say that there's no

indication of the shooting to come. >> i saw him at lunch, and he seemed perfectly fine. and it's just mind blowing really. >> we also have an updated on the condition of the nine that were the most seriously injured. six have been released from the hospital and the three in critical condition have been upgraded to serious. >> what else about the victims do we know? has the army made their identities public yet. >> they have for one. that is 37-year-old timothy owens. a councilor and also a sergeant and also a father in illinois. >> thank you very much. in afghanistan, associated press photographer was shot and killed by an afghan police officer. she and her colleague, both traveling in pakistan when an officer fired into the car. cathy was also wounded. she's in stable condition.

both of them on the eve of the elections in afghanistan, and security for tomorrow's vote is tight. jane ferguson looking at the frontrunner of who many say will be the next president >> reporter: even those hoping to run this country can't travel its roads. this presidential candidate's helicopter lands at a spot which is just a two-hour drive from the capital. a journey considered too dangerous for him. previously foreign minister, he's seen as karzai's chosen successor. but that support, however, could come with a legacy of corruption linked to this government. >> reporter: the karzai government will be very well-known for a long time for horrendous levels of corruption, and you were part of that government. and what will you do differently? >> first of all, i haven't been involved with any corruption issues, and the fact that i've been involved, i know what's

happening, and i know what kind of thing we should do to correct that. i want to put this experience that i got for achievement in the service of the afghan people. >> reporter: while he was the prime minister, congress refused to sign a bilateral agreement with the u.s. allowing some foreign troops to remain in the country. >> the fundamental of the relation of afghanistan and the united states is solid. we have problems, and the problems happen with friends. i was personally involved in draft ticket from afghanistan, and i believe is that the national interest of afghanistan has been respected and that it's in the interest of afghanistan and the united states, and i am hopeful that this should be resolved soon. >> reporter: speeches are heard by thousands of locals, including supporters of warlords.

of the eight men running for resident, rasual is only one of three to have a female vice president vice president. but image and protocol mold themselves to expectations. >> they want to present themselves as the future of a modern afghan state. but in reality, when they travel to the provinces to areas like this, 13 years since the fall of the call ban, there's not a single woman in this crowd. he was educated in the finest schools, and the highest levels of the afghan government. he's seen as an asset in the eyes of many afghans. as a candidate, he will be seen as a vote of continuity. if afghans want more of the same style of government, he stands a very strong chance of leading it. jane ferguson, aljazeera, afghanistan.

>> secretary of state, john kerry, saying that it's time for a reality check. he's talking about the fragile peace process between the israelis and the palestinians. he will not sit by indefinitely as both sides appear to be moving further and further away. mike viqueira, these are decades of negotiations and what has erkerry's patience wearing thin? >> it's an elusive goal going back generations, it's the dark before the dawn, 14 months into an effort by secretary kerry, shuttling diplomacy, and many said that it was futile at best and waste of time at worst. and in the last several days, there have been several developments that have really put this peace process on the rocks. the secretary was in morocco overnight. and he was with the leader of that nation in casablanca, asked

about the peace process after benjamin netanyahu, as part of the process, in retaliation, the leader of the palestinian authority, mahmoud abbas signed treaties, something that he said he wouldn't do while the peace process was underway. all very inflammatory, and john kerry said that it's time to reevaluate. let's listen. >> in credibly, in the last few days, both sides have taken steps that are not helpful. and that's to everybody. so we're going to reevaluate carefully exactly where this is, and where it might be possibly able to go. >> john kerry announcing that instead of going to the region yet again as previously planned, he's coming back here to washington to confer with president obama and top officials. >> and secretary query calling

this a critical moment in the peace process, and what will it mean if the negotiations fall through yet again. >> well, it is a critical moment, because april, the 29th, this was the goal to come up with a framework, just the basics to move this negotiation forward. and they wanted it to keep churning forward. and obviously now this is on the rocks. secretary kerry essentially said, del, the united states government has better things to do. they have a plate full of foreign policy challenges, starting with ukraine, iran, syria, you name it down the line. you could look at this as a negotiation ploy, walking away and seeming to, at this point, trying to shake this thing up and trying to get both parties back to the table. but at this point, it looks very dark indeed, del. >> mike viqueira at the white house, thank you very much. violent storms hitting the u.s., and they're making their way to the east.

and that's ominous radar. >> this is what it looked like yesterday. hail, wind, and even a few tornadoes being reported yesterday from dallas all the way north through springfield, illinois. this is what it looked like on the radar yesterday afternoon. baseball-sized hail in some areas. golf ball to baseball-sized hail coming down, cars, windows, siding, you name it, as these storms push through the area. so wind and hail was the primary threat. and we had about eight tornadoes reported. four of them around texas, three in missouri and one in illinois. the main threat will be wind damage, pushing east. flooding and wind damage with these storms through kentucky, flash flooding here, and there are a few warnings in effect. regular flood warnings, and a lot of water making their way through the rivers. there will be severe storms with wind damage, and severe weather through louisiana now, hail, and

that will continue to push east. and we'll see what happens for the weekend with the national forecast. >> chilean president, michelle, said that her country will do everything it can to rebuild communities after dozens of earthquakes rocked community. residents are spending the second neighbor outside sleeping, afraid to go back into the buildings damaged by the tremors. we'll see the hardest-hit areas. >> a boat flying through the air in the port of iquique. one of the dozens of fishing vessels that can no longer float in the water. >> we were 200 meters out of the dock, and now hi arms are crossed and i can't feed my family. >> in fact, no one is out fishing, the port is closed. and in any case, there's no ice to keep the catch fresh, i'm told. it has been three days since a

massive earthquake brought the port city of nearly half a million people to a standstill. and patience is beginning to wear thin. this water is only good enough for the toilet, this woman complains. nearby, we discovered that hundreds of merchants from neighboring bowlive use, who regularly come for the day to buy merchandise, are now stranded, many penniless. the only road to the port is blocked by a landslide. >> i've never had this experience before. we don't have earthquakes in bolivia. i want to go home. >> there have been hundreds of aftershocks. at least one as strong as the earthquake. so residents of this neighborhood are taking to the hills. the structural damage to his flat, the worst is in his son's bedroom. >> we're sleeping outside in a tent. we're afraid that the flat will

collapse on top of us because the main pillars are over our beds. it's too dangerous. >> thousands in the homes are damaged, the government is just beginning to assess the destruction. no longer willing to wait for the road to open, they are starting to walk to the border, 450 kilometers away. iquique. >> coming up on aljazeera, florida is one of the toughest states anywhere for sex offenders. a new law is supposed to protect lives, but some say that it goes too far. >> he ran for office, and now art, president george w. bush.

>> some of his other works. >> josh growth was good in march, but not great. the economy added jobs, 6.7%. and the number of people actively looking for work, known as the live participation rate, was up 2%. the dow jones industrial average is up 12 points, and the s&p 500 is turning lower, and the nasdaq is in the minus column. and the do you is down 15 points. the justice department investigating whether high-speed

trading violates the rules before the house panel this morning. >> i can confirm that we in the united states department of justice are investigating this practice, to determine whether it violates insider trading laws. and the department is committed to ensuring the integrity of our financial markets, and we're determined to follow the facts of where the law may lead. >> a nationwide manhunt is on for a pedophile who taped himself having sex with a young boy. they're trying to find a predator picture here. they call him john doe 28. he's wearing wire rim glasses, with a fish logo on it. a painting in the background, it was found in the arrest of a san francisco man, also suspected of child pornography. former governor, rick scott, signing a bill into law to keep

more sex offenders off the streets. >> it's wrapped in sky high barbed wire. no one gets in or out voluntarily, it's not a prison. but david, who spent 4 and a half years here, say that it's worse. >> it's like a death center. >> this is the florida civil commitment center. it's where the state's most violent sexual predators go after they serve their prison sentences. they go here because the state deems them too dangerous to walk the streets. >> the people here are likely to have committed any kind of horrible traumatic offenses against victims, so there's no price, if you save one child from being victimized keeping somebody in that program to give them the help that they desperately need. >> once these sex offender's prison terms end, a team of evaluators determine if they

meet a specific criteria. that includes if they suffer from a mental abnormality that predisposes them to commit another sex crime. they remain there indefinitely, until a judge or jar deems they're not a danger to society. 57-year-old donald james smith was considered a prime candidate for civil commitment. and he was a registered sex offender, convicted of crimes dating back decades. and he spent three years before a judge released him. last week, after a judge let him out, he raped and strangled cherish perry winkle. >> an eight-year-old girl is dead. >> lauren pushed for the tougher law, and with it, all sex offenders in jail or prison will be evaluated.

and recommendations will be pushed. >> i fight every day to make sure 1245 these monsters, these sexually deviant individuals, are as far away from our children as humanly possible. >> so far the state says that it has released 300 offenders from its civil commitment program. but david said that the program is designed to keep people from getting out. a convicted rapist, who spent 4 and a half years in limbo. when he finally got a trial, a jury released him. of the 600 in the facility, 72 are awaiting their commitment hearing. >> it's crazy, and everything that they're doing, as far as i'm concerned, violates every constitutional right. >> canner says that they wait. canner estimates that those

violate predators, it has likely saved thousands of people have becoming their victims. though it was not enough to save cherish perry winkle. aljazeera, miami. >> coming up on aljazeera america, these men needed financial help. and they turned to a website for science. and it's a bird, it's a plane, it's a project.

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>> welcome back to aljazeera america. i'm del walters. and these are your headlines. tragedy, focusing on the gunman's mental health. he has been identified as ivan lopez. his medical history indicates an unstable psychiatric or psychological condition specifically. >> and in afghanistan, two foreign journalists shot, one of them killed. one of those journalists remains

in the hospital severely injured. secretary of state john kerry, said that it's reality time for the palestinians. it's time to reevaluate america's role in the process. and meantime, israeli forces raided hamas training camps. if you ever wanted to participate in a major scientific break, now is your chance. a website is giving people opportunities like never before. >> it's all the way like this, 8 and a half feet long. >> in seattle, dr. christian sei go. r entertains an investor, who loves sign sawyers. and try ser tops in particular. >> it had a beak. >> but it's the real thing. >> lucy perez donated $5 for his

digging up try ser tops in wyoming. anybody with a specific scientific question to ask strangers for money for research into almost anything. company's scientists vet every prompt before they put it on the website. technology, medicine, ecology, social science, psychology. >> dr. seigor hit his modest fundraising goal, and bones that might not have been on earth r. >> $200,000 there to go collect something like this is a big deal for us. >> in return, they get access to the process. he and his assistants posted blogs. and lindsay and her fundraisers will be invited to special events. >> we keep in mind, what are we

going to tell them today? what are they going to want to see? >> it may be a different kind of research funding but it's a familiar startup story. this is world headquarters of experiment.com. >> we roll out of bed and come here. >> a cramped san francisco office and living space, where so far the company has collected $600,000 in funding. the website and the work sight growing beyond what cindy wu ever expected. >> six of us work there every day. >> this is not philanthropy. she wants to remake research funding, scientific collaboration of. >> it's to make science for everyone in the world. >> we're going up. >> that's a femur of a mammoth that's bigger than you. >> with no project too big and

no investor too small. aljazeera, seatment. >> the national forecast, watching this storm in the northwest. and pushing up to the great lakes. heavy flooding and farther south, we get into this area of severe weather. it's all moving to the east. and the high pressure moves in. the west coast conference dealing with showers. the concern today, more severe weather. and there's a foot of snow coming down, even more possible. but this is a front that moves to the south. there's warm air trying to come up the mid-atlantic coast where we're seeing the warm air, and we have the potential for more severe weather. that area today over western north carolina and western virginia. the area yesterday where they had the severe weather, it has pushed east and it's quiet today. a chance for a beak from the severe storms. as the storm is trying to move

to the northeast, it's trying to bring the warm air with it. a tremendous contrast from washington to it the north and new england. that will try to climb today to new york before tomorrow. and the front moves through and the temperatures go back down. it's quiet though. storm clears out, taking all of the rain and snow with it. just a little bit cooler and the temperatures will be going down. here's the area today, it could see a foot of snow. and as far as the flooding concerns, flood watches over the midwest. and we could see severe weather warnings later today. >> nasa reaching for new heights. you're watching the morpheus lander taking off. it went 800 feet into the air. and nasa is testing vehicles to deliver cargo to other planets

so they can avoid hazards. it could be used multiple times, and nasa said that it will save them a lot of money. thank you for watching aljazeera. i'm del walters. "inside story" is next. the tiny number of americand themselves bumping up against implements good news. the limits zoom into the millions get out your checkbooks it is inside story.